Blogger

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Blogger is a somewhat unusual place to begin this track for the course. You will need to establish a blog to post your Performance Records for the SMART and HTML tracks. So, that is why we are beginning this track with Blogger.

Blogging is a way of sharing one's thoughts and ideas. Facebook and twitter are mini and micro blog systems, respectively, used as social media. Full scale blogs often are used professionally and in academic settings to carry out asynchronous discussions.


EXAMPLE BLOGGING SITES
(and an excellent array of professional development education sites)
Will Richardson - http://weblogg-ed.com/

David Warlick - http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/

Clay Burrell - http://beyond-school.org/

Chris Lehmann - http://www.practicaltheory.org/

George Siemens - http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/

Curt Bonk - http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/

Jeff Utecht - http://www.thethinkingstick.com/

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach - http://www.21stcenturycollaborative.com/

Stephen Downes - http://www.downes.ca/

Judy O'Connell - http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

Clarence Fisher - http://www.evenfromhere.org/



Discussions among colleagues often are tracked using a blogroll.

SetupThis is how we will carry on an academic discussion of your introduction to educational media technologies for this course. To do that, you will need to create a blog, as follows:


    • Create Blog Now
    • Use Google account or establish a new account

  • B. Name blog


    • This name becomes part of the web address, so it must be unique to that service.
    • Sometimes the name of the blog also becomes the title of the blog, as well. In other instances the title may be different.

  • C. Preview and choose a templateD. You will be invited to start posting with your first post. You can save to a "Draft" if you have to quit before you are finished with what you wish to write.E. When you have written what you wish to post, "Preview Before Publishing" (PBP). Again, if it doesn't look right, save to "draft." Only when you are happy with what you have written and the way it appears in Preview, do you press "Publish."F. Review your "Dashboard" settings to be sure you know where your Dashboard is, and what is there. This is the control center for your blog. If the service has to contact you, this is the interface point.G. Set up your blogroll and labels gadget.H. Post your Tech Performance Record for this evening.
  • I. Please note the use of labels for your posts in the TECH and GAIN tracks, and put a gadget on the side of your blog to track the postings within their respective tracks.

Lesson Plans
ElementaryLanguage Arts - "Discover Blogging" - Lerman & Hicks, page 233Language Arts - "Historical Novel" - __https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49v____kt_____3d986mbc9__Language Arts - "The World in Our Classroom" - Lerman & Hicks, page 266Mathematics - "The Camping Trip" - Lerman & Hicks, page 227Mathematics - "Home Measurements" - Lerman & Hicks, page 244
Middle School Language Arts - "Book Review Blog"- Lerman & Hicks, page 276Language Arts - "Historical Novel" - __https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49v____kt_____3d986mbc9__Language Arts - "Literature Genre Study"- Lerman & Hicks, page 291Social Studies - "Current Events Blog"- Lerman & Hicks, page 285
High SchoolLanguage Arts - "Historical Novel" - __https://docs.google.com/View?id=ddv49v____kt_____3d986mbc9__Social Studies - "Issue of Our Time"- Lerman & Hicks, page 332

Performance Record
  1. You will have a functioning blog with a blogroll gadget of classmates blogs and a gadget for labels.
  2. Post your SMART Performance Record for the evening's work.
  3. Read and comment on at least one of the professional blogs listed as Example Blogging Sites (or the lesson plan listed) on the Groups discussion board.
  4. Be sure your posts show in your Labels gadget on your blog, as well as your blogroll, even though we will be using only the SMART label in this first week.